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Seven faculty members named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Bakar Fellow Phil Messersmith was named among the newest cohort of AAAS Fellows. The 471 new AAAS fellows announced today (March 27) were recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology to administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating to and interpreting science for the public.
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UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot

“Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do,” said Liwei Lin, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. “This flying robot can be wirelessly controlled to approach and hit a designated target, mimicking the mechanism of pollination as a bee collects nectar and flies away.”
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Ronald Rael’s Adobe Oasis Featured at Desert X

The site-specific, international art exhibition Desert X that lands in the Coachella Valley every two years opened March 8 and runs through May 11, bringing large scale art from a global pool with two Native artists in the desert landscape.
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